A nostalgic piece featuring Yugi (Dark Yugi and Normal Yugi) along with Pegasus to commemorate the 20th anniversary.

#duel monsters#pegasus#yugioh#yugi

Rough Sketch

Basic composition. Worried more about the position of characters and set piece than I am anything else.

Background Layer

A purplish shade of color to work as the background. Hue and everything can be adjusted as we move forward.

Pegasus

Painting of Pegasus. I do everything in grayscale and then mix and match afterwards. It's very important to get your shadows down before you start with color, I feel. Sometimes when people work exclusively in color, their sense of light and dark becomes a little skewed, so I try for grayscale first. I do the same with Yugi, but I omit that here.

Pegasus In Color

Confident in his grayscale image, I transition to color. I also make alterations to his face.

Dark Yugi

Dark Yugi's next. I spend a lot of time on his hands and face and will get around to the rest of his body as I build up everything else.

Yugi And The Castle

I add Yugi and the castle. I change the pose Yugi has to something a little more dramatic and make sure that the castle at least looks okay before I start fiddling around with the lighting any more.

Finished

Added some extra effects, borders and fixed the angle on a few things. This is pretty much done for the most part.

Ah, yeah. I tend to paint right on top of the sketch because it really helps you bring your light and dark values up. You can also draw the lines later in places where you feel like having no line would make things look "too weird."